Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will seen be asked to contribute money to this Council budget. The majority of this money is given to charities in Cambridge and Boston, and a certain amount to such national organizations as the Red Cross. Each year roughly three thousand dollars is given to the Phillips Brooks House fund. Around a thousand dollars is laid aside to help students deemed worthy by the Council who are unable to meet a form bill. The purpose of this original contribution is then to take care of requests from Charitable Organizations with which you would otherwise be flooded during the rest...
...duty but tepidly. Yet last week in Shanghai the Japanese Navy was fighting one of the greatest battles since the World War, and fighting it almost alone. Many times during the week Japanese army reinforcements were reported on their way to Shanghai but almost all the Japanese reinforcements actually seen were on their way north to strengthen the forces around Peiping where bullet-headed General Fu Tso-yi, Chairman of Suiyuan Province, has been holding up the Japanese advance for nearly the past fortnight in the narrow gorges of Nankow Pass. With other northern warlords coming to help him last...
...Massine had seen while taking part in the ballet, the Italians had conversed earnestly with Colonel de Basil, and as the dancer well knew, the tall impresario had been dickering to sign them up for his troupe before Massine could get off the stage. Massine, too, wanted the No. 1 de Basil to take charge of another ballet group. But Massine's onstage frenzies and his backstage pleadings were no use: Colonel de Basil won Radice (and Fabbri) with offers of $700 apiece per month on any U. S. tour he might take them on, $450 in England...
...world is full of secondary masterpieces which are continually discovered by people who never saw them before. Nevertheless it appeared last week that Director Pratt had unearthed a highly unusual hoard from the old Crocker cache. Of 60 drawings which have never been seen before in the U. S., the majority on display were by expert Flemish and Dutch draftsmen of the 16th and 17th Centuries: Nicolaas Berchem, Phillips Wouwerman, Willem van Bemmel, Jakob van Ruysdael, Rembrandt, Rubens. Among the paintings which had been cleaned off and hung decently were a Madonna by Andrea del Sarto, portraits by the Elder...
...more gratifying because so rare were the two campaigns which the Crow agency did put across. As publisher of China's first fashion book, introducing slit skirts to replace trousers, Author Crow is proud to have brought out of hiding "the most beautiful leg the world has ever seen." As publisher of China's first manual on poker-playing, he not only turned out a tremendous bestseller, but had the deep satisfaction of restoring that game to the classic traditions obtaining when he played it in Fort Worth, Tex. 30 years ago, before decadence set in through...